The zoning regulations and districts as herein
set forth have been made in accordance with a comprehensive plan for
the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals and general welfare
of the community. They have been designed to lessen congestion in
the streets, to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers,
to provide adequate light and air, to prevent overcrowding of the
land, to avoid undue concentration of population and to facilitate
the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools,
parks and other public requirements. They have been made with reasonable
consideration, among other things, as to the character of the district
and its peculiar suitability for particular uses and with a view to
conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate
use of land throughout the Village.

Generally. In interpreting and applying the provisions
of this chapter, they shall be held to be the minimum requirements
adopted for the promotion of health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience
and the general welfare.

Lot, open space and yard areas. The lot, open space
or yard areas required by this chapter for a particular building shall
not be diminished and shall not be included as a part of the required
lot, open space or yard area of any other building. If the lot, open
space or yard areas required by this chapter for a particular building
are diminished, the continued existence of such building shall be
deemed a violation of this chapter. The lot, open space or yard areas
of buildings existing on June 29, 1937, shall not be diminished below
the requirements herein provided for buildings hereafter erected,
and such required areas shall not be included as a part of the required
areas of any building hereafter erected.

Wherever the requirements of this chapter are
at variance with the requirements of any other adopted rules, regulations,
codes or ordinances, the most restrictive or that imposing the higher
standard shall govern.

Four or more persons living together in a dwelling unit who
are not related by blood, marriage or legal adoption, who have overcome
a presumption that they do not constitute a family by a determination
that they are the functional equivalent of a natural family.

The group must share the entire dwelling unit, including the
cooking facilities, as a single housekeeping unit, use all rooms and
housekeeping facilities in common and have access to all parts of
the dwelling unit.

Shall be measured from the average established grade at the
street lot line or from the average natural ground level, if higher,
or, if no street grade has been established, to the highest level
of the roof thereof. Where no roof exists or where there are structures
wholly or partly above the roof, the height shall be measured to the
highest point of such building or structure.

A parcel of land occupied or designed to be occupied by one
building and the accessory buildings or uses customarily incident
to it, including such open spaces as are arranged and designed to
be used in connection with such building. A lot may or may not be
the land shown as the lot on a duly recorded plot.

The aggregate of the entire horizontal-cross-sectional area,
including projections of the main building and any accessory structures
on the lot, except for pools. All uncovered porches, patios and decks
where the maximum height above grade is less than 18 inches are excluded.

Interpreted by the court as having no doors within the housekeeping
unit. The applicant must file a notarized statement indicating the
chain of relationship and appear before the Zoning Board of Appeals
for approval. The Zoning Board will determine if it wants legal publication;
if so, then the charge for publication can be transferred to applicant.

An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with the building,
situated between the building and the side line of the lot and extending
through from the street or from the front yard to the rear yard or
to the rear yard line of the lot. Any line not a rear line or a front
line shall be deemed a side line.

Consists of two stories, the second of which shall have an
attic on top and shall have full headroom space of not less than 75%
of the minimum ground floor area prescribed in the respective zones
for such building.

Zoning regulations and districts as herein set
forth are hereby established and approved. No building or land shall
be used and no building shall be erected or structurally altered except
in conformity with the regulations herein prescribed.

For the purposes of this chapter, the Village is hereby
divided into: Residential A District, which is the residential area
north of Merrick Road; Residential AA District, which is the residential
area south of Merrick Road; Business G District; and Business GG District.

The boundaries of said districts shall be as shown
upon the map which is designated as the "Zoning Map of the Village
of Massapequa Park, New York, as amended." Said Map and all notices,
references and other things shown thereon and therein are hereby adopted
and incorporated by reference and shall be and are as much a part
of this chapter as if the matters and things shown on and by said
map were all fully described herein.[1]

District boundaries. When definite distances in feet
are not shown on the Zoning Map, the district boundaries on the Zoning
Map are intended to be along existing streets, alleys or property
lines or extensions of or from the same. When district boundaries
are not on street or lot lines but are indicated as being a given
distance from a certain street line, they shall be parallel to the
street line or extension thereof from which the distance is given,
unless otherwise indicated. When a district boundary is shown as being
in any body of water, said boundary line shall be deemed to be at
the limit of the jurisdiction of the Village, unless otherwise indicated.
When the location of a district boundary line is not otherwise determined,
it shall be determined by the scale of the map measured from a given
line.

Street layout. Where the street layout actually on
the ground varies from the street layout as shown on the Zoning Map,
the Zoning Board of Appeals may apply the designation shown on the
mapped streets in such a way as to carry out the intent and purpose
of this chapter for the particular area in question.